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[quote=Anonymous]OP, pick a lane and stay in it.

Be introverted and stop sharing with her/not needing accolades.

Or send your own crap to all the relevant people so you can enjoy reveling in the feedback.

You feel she is stealing your thunder but you are too lazy to do the legwork to post/share stuff yourself. So don't be salty; it is incongruent.

I get it; I'm lazy too- 50% not into the social media constructed photo ops people do- but also 50% I also don't want to do spend my off time doing that stuff. So I would make a joke of it but take her by the shoulders and tell her you are dying to be in the loop on the social media/texts because you LOVE that she does it- as you don't have time, but are SAD you miss out on hearing all the oohs and aahs. I'd just own it and be honest.... but my MIL would get that.

I had to tell my MIL (when she asked if it was ok- all the vacations she was planning/ she picks all our vacations) that for any mild annoyance of 'wanting to choose/plan ourselves' was vastly outweighed by the fact that it was 99% relief as we forget to plan crap/don't organize ahead of time/prefer to be a free rider as she often pays- so you get what you get. And I thanked her for making us a PART of it- which is the piece missing for you.[/quote]

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